Albert Thierfelder
Ferdinand Albert Thierfelder (December 12, 1842 – January 22, 1908) was a German pathologist born in Meissen. He was the son of Stadtphysikus Johann Gottlieb Thierfelder (1799–1867), and was a younger brother to internist Theodor Thierfelder (1824–1904).
He studied medicine at the University of Rostock and University of Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1870 with a dissertation on sweat gland adenoma, Ein Fall von Schweissdrüsen-Adenom. He spent several years as an assistant at the institute of pathology in Leipzig, and from 1876 to 1908 was a full professor of anatomic pathology in Rostock.[1] One of his better known assistants in Rostock was pathologist Otto Lubarsch (1860–1934).[2]
In 1884/85 he was chairman of Naturforschenden Gesellschaft (Natural History Society of Rostock).[1]
He was the author of Atlas der Pathologischen Histologie (Atlas of pathological histology), published in seven parts from 1872 to 1881:
- 1 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Luftwege und der Lunge". 1872.
- 2 Lfg. "Pathologie Histologie des Verdauungscanals (Mundhöhle, Rachen, Speiseröhre, Magen und Darm)". 1873.
- 3 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Leber, des Pankreas und der Speicheldrüsen". 1874.
- 4 Lfg. "Pathologishe Histologie der serösen Haüte und Gelenke". 1875.
- 5 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie der Knochen und des Periosts". 1876.
- 6 and 7 Lfg. "Pathologische Histologie des Herzens und der Blutgefasse (Myocardium, Endocardium Arterien, Venen und Capillaren)". 1881.[3]
References
- [1] Pathology in Rostock by Horst Nizze
- Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium (biographical information)
- ^ a b Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig (biography)
- ^ Otto Lubarsch @ Who Named It
- ^ WorldCat Title Des Atlas der pathologischen Histologie
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